Prologue: Rouen -- The surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu -- The cynosure of all eyes -- School days -- Stories and histories -- First love -- The grand tour -- A fortunate fall -- Deaths in the family -- Louis, Louise, and Max -- 1848 -- Voyage en Orient: Egypt -- Voyage en Orient: after Egypt -- The perfect hostages -- Madame Bovary -- On trial -- An island of his own -- Entering middle age -- Imperial society -- L'Éducation sentimentale -- War years -- Orphanhood -- "We are all of us émigrés, left over from another age" -- A fruitful intermission -- The unraveling.
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